Djibril Dramé is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in the spiritual ethos of the Baye Fall Sufi brotherhood. His work weaves poetic and politically engaged approaches to cultural memory with contemporary African aesthetics.

He began experimenting with graffiti at the age of nine and turned to photography at fifteen. In his early twenties, Dramé became deeply involved in Dakar’s graffiti collectives, where he developed the most extensive archive of street art practice in Senegal through photography and interviews. This formative work shaped a practice attentive to urban space, collective authorship, and visual history.

His practice has since expanded into fine art photography and video, alongside acclaimed commercial projects in fashion and corporate contexts. Across these fields, Dramé has developed a distinct visual language that foregrounds Black experience and excellence, migration and diaspora, spirituality, and gender identity—most often through photographic portraiture made with a Hasselblad 907X & CFV 100C medium-format camera.

Since his first exhibition in 2012, Dramé has presented his work across Africa, Europe, and beyond. His practice is deeply collaborative, bringing together artists, researchers, and thinkers around Black and diasporic narratives. A member of the sixth cohort of residents at Black Rock Senegal, he recently completed a Dekandoo residency in Gandiol, Saint-Louis, Senegal, and is in the process of heading to Barcelona at The Over to continue his research on migration, identity, and spirituality.